In the Tang army's tent, Xie Yingdeng said to Wang Junkuo worriedly: "One leaf can tell Qiu. From today, Zhang Xuan organized the generals to summarize the battle, and even soldiers participated, he could know why the Northern Sui army could win repeatedly and why they rarely make mistakes. On the contrary, they could often catch other people's mistakes. I now know the reason. Junkuo, the Tang army is really no match!"

Wang Junguo said for a while: "Zhang Xuan may be training a general, so he summoned the generals to summarize the experience and lessons. I admit that this is indeed a good idea, but don't you think the soldiers have the shortcomings of heavy crossbows in advance?"

Xie Yingdeng shook his head, "I don't think so. Anyone can think of this kind of thing. The key is whether it can be done. I, Xie Yingdeng, have also considered soliciting ideas and opinions from soldiers, but I can't do it because I can't let go of my face, but the dignified King of Qi has done it. This is not the first time. I heard that in Liaodong, the flood of Yan City was just a soldier's idea. I think Zhang Xuan would really bow to solicit ideas and opinions from soldiers. From these small things, it can be seen that Zhang Xuan's extraordinaryness. If we let our emperor compare with him, I would be more optimistic about Zhang Xuan."

"General Thank you!"

Wang Jungu's face sank and shouted loudly: "You forgot your position!"

Xie Yingdeng didn't say a word, and after a while, Wang Junguo wanted to talk about him again. At this moment, a soldier said anxiously at the door: "Report to General, the King of Qi has an emergency military order!"

Wang Jungu and Xie Yingdeng were stunned at the same time. What happened? Wang Jungu said quickly: "Let the mail come in!"

After a moment, a soldier from the Sui army quickly walked into the tent, knelt down on one knee, raised an arrow and said, "The general has an order, the Tang army immediately summoned the army and set off immediately."

"What happened?" Wang Junguo and Xie Yingdeng asked at the same time.

"Reported to the two generals, the scouts sent information, and the Turkic army began to move westward, and it might have been crossing the Yellow River and retreating westward."

Wang Junguo nodded, "Please tell Your Highness, we know, concentrate our troops westward immediately!"

The newsman stood up and hurried away. Xie Yingdeng hesitated and said, "Is this the Turkish plot? Because it is difficult to attack the camp, I want to lead us out and then fight head-on!"

"Maybe there is a possibility, but we have no choice. What if the Turkic army really retreated westward?"

Xie Yingdeng nodded silently, stood up and said, "I'll go and summon the army!"

At this time, Wang Junkuo no longer cared about the victory of the Sui and Tang dynasties with Xie Yingdeng, so he quickly got up and walked outside the tent.

At the same time, the sound of rumbling war drums came from the Sui army camp. This was a signal of the gathering of the army. Teams of soldiers ran out of the tent and began to gather quickly, from fire to team, from team to brigade, from brigade to camp, from camp to regiment, and even from army to guard.

The soldiers of the Northern Sui Dynasty included ten people as one fire, fifty people as a team, hundred people as a brigade, three hundred people as a battalion, one thousand two hundred people as a regiment, and five thousand people as an army. They were commanded by the fire chief, team commander, brigade commander, school commander, general Yingyanglang, and general Hubenlang. There were deputy positions above the team, deputy brigade deputy, deputy lieutenant, general Yingjilang and general Huyalang.

The 400,000 troops in the Northern Sui Dynasty were divided into eleven guards, but the number of people in each guard was different, or they would be temporarily combined, and each guard was the general.

In order to facilitate the soldiers to gather in battle, the Northern Sui Army set up a regiment flag on the regiment, including the eight banners such as flying lions, flying tigers, flying leopards, flying wolfs, flying eagles, flying bears, flying elephants, etc., and there are twelve colors, making the flags of each regiment different. In this way, when the army is fighting, the soldiers can identify and follow the battle flags they belong to.

The Sui army camp was particularly busy, with 100,000 troops gathered from all directions. Officers and generals at all levels were loudly commanding, waving flags, guiding soldiers to gather in their own teams.

In the central army's tent, the soldiers were also busy cleaning up. Zhang Xuan stood in front of the sand table with his hands behind his back and looked at the west side of Loufan County for a long time. To the west of Loufan County is the northern remnants of the Luliang Mountains. Through Luliang Mountains, there are large hilly areas. The terrain is undulating, but there are no mountains. However, the northernmost part of Loufan County is blocked by mountains, and the only mountain pass is Loufan Pass.

But if you cross the Yellow River, even though it is blocked by mountains and Great Wall when you go north, there are many passes and without the Sui army blocking it, the Turkic army can cross the mountains and go north to Hetao and return to the grassland from Hetao.

"What are your highness thinking?" Fang Xuanling walked up to him and asked with a smile.

"I'm wondering whether the Turkic army has the ability to cross the Yellow River?" Zhang Xuan said in a deep voice.

"This is indeed a very critical issue. We interrogated many prisoners of war, but they couldn't explain it clearly. However, I personally estimate that they have a certain ability to cross the river, but this ability is definitely not great. It is hard to say whether they can cross the Yellow River. However, it should be possible to cross the Turkic Khan."

Zhang Xuan frowned, "Are you saying that Chuluo Khan wants to abandon his army?"

Fang Xuanling nodded, "In a critical moment, he will definitely do this. This person is cold-hearted and harsh in control, and is extremely unpopular in the grassland. Therefore, other Turkic nobles have been constantly opposed to him and want to seek his position as a Khan. You can know from how he treats Tiele's army."

Zhang Xuan nodded and sneaked into the Sui army camp the night before yesterday. Chu Luo Khan fled north regardless of the life or death of the two armies. From this, it can be seen that this person would definitely abandon the Turkic army at a critical moment.

"Whether Chuluo Khan wants to cross the river and go north or plan to lure troops westward, we cannot avoid a battle with the Turkic army. The best strategy is to remain unchanged."

At this time, the marching Sima Jia Runfu walked into the tent and smiled: "Master, only the central army tent is left that has not been demolished."

"Okay! Let's go to the assembly place."

Zhang Xuan led everyone out of the tent and walked towards the army assembly area outside the camp.

The northern part of the Luliang Mountains is composed of two mountains, Luya Mountain and Guancen Mountain, with a radius of hundreds of miles. This area is lush with forests, many alpine grasslands, gullies, and canyons, and the terrain is very complex. After the Turkic army failed to attack the Sui army, it changed its strategy and headed westward. Although the sneak attack cost nearly 20,000 people, the main force of the Turkic forces still had 90,000 troops, which had enough military strength to decide the victory and defeat with the Sui and Tang coalition forces.

The Turkic army marched west from the Jingle Basin and entered the Luliang Mountains two days later. If the Turkic army did not go to Lishijun, there were at least five passages to choose from. The Turkic army chose a middle passage, which was about 150 miles long and took two days to walk through the entire mountain range. On both sides were low grass slopes and dense forests above. Because the Turkic army carried a large number of cattle and sheep, the march was not fast, and many mountain pastures also gave them abundant food for war horses and livestock.

At noon the next day, about 20,000 people from the Turkic army stopped to rest in a small basin. There were large forests for miles and a lot of soldiers lit hundreds of bonfires and gathered around the fire to roast lamb, talking and laughing, and it was extremely lively.

Not far away, there were thousands of camels lying. This was the logistics and material transportation team of the Turkic army. Each camel carries heavy items because it was just a temporary rest. The supplies carried by the camel were not unloaded, so it was easy to set off at any time.

These materials are not tents. The tents are carried by the soldiers themselves. Half of these camels carry the personal belongings of the generals. The various items of Luo Khan alone require 300 camels to carry, and the other half are carrying rafts crossing the river.

Whether it is the personal belongings of the senior officials and the rafts crossing the river, they are very important materials, so the Turkic army also deployed heavy troops to guard more than 5,000 soldiers to protect the more than 1,000 camels.

At this time, in a forest several miles away from the north, a team of Sui army scouts appeared on the edge of the forest, and used the protection of the trees to observe the Turkic army from afar.

The Sui army had about fifty scouts, and the leader was a general of 27 or 28 years old, and was Lang General Sun Ying.

Not long ago, the camp was attacked by the Turkic army. Although the commander believed that there was a problem with the deployment of the scout's army and had nothing to do with the scout's soldiers, the Sui army still put the responsibility on the scout's army.

In response to the southern expedition of the Turks, Shen Guang and his main scout guards did not go to fight. They stayed in various parts of the Northern Sui Dynasty to conduct internal defense. There were only two thousand scouts who followed the battle. Even the commander of Ying Yanglang's general Sun Ying, the sneak attack brought great pressure to Sun Ying and also brought great shame to him. He vowed to wash away this shame.

Sun Ying personally led the team to explore the intelligence in the enemy station. This time, Sun Ying mainly investigated the Turkic army's sheepskin rafts. This was the real purpose of the Turkic army's advance westward and an extremely critical intelligence.

Sun Ying had already investigated the Turkic front and central troops yesterday, but no sheepskin raft was found. Today, when he explored the rear troops, he finally found a thousand camels carrying heavy objects.

(To be continued.)

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